Our Company

Thinking Cap was founded in the spring of 2001. In 2003, Thinking Cap launched the first versions of Thinking Cap® Author and Thinking Cap LMS. Without a customer, we made the investment to create the first XML-based eLearning system. This was done for one reason - it was needed. With over 70 commercial and open source Authoring Tools and LMS products on the market not one used XML to facilitate reusability and single sourcing. Thinking Cap was created to fill that gap.

When Thinking Cap was first released this new way of creating learning was called the Structured Content Development Model (SCDM). You can read about it here.

Quickly Thinking Cap and its way of creating and maintaining content gained many followers. But what about how that content is delivered? The Structured Content Development Model didn't cover this and like other LMSs, ours was was locked into the same practice of manually assigning courses to users and copying courses into many places to handle divergent groups all with slightly different learning needs.

In 2007, Thinking Cap LMS added Dynamic Management, which added the ability to use semantic information about courses, domains and users and a set of simple rules to effortlessly manage the entirety of the delivery of learning. This closed the semantic circle, extending what we had done with content creation in Thinking Cap Author to the delivery of that content in Thinking Cap LMS.